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Cuenta la leyenda que el cerezo que vino de Japón, plantado entre la propiedad de los Martín y la de los González de Ceballos, tiene el poder de repartir la felicidad cada año, dependiendo de en qué lado caiga su última cereza sobre finales de agosto. Todos sabemos que es una teoría poco probable, sin embargo, ambas familias la han seguido alimentando, generación tras generación, para que no desaparezca.

Es difícil valorar hoy lo que significó Anatole France en su tiempo. Fue un escritor adorado por los liberales del mundo occidental. En él se daba esa militancia respetuosa por los lugares comunes de lo políticamente correcto.

This is a story from the Famous Composers collection.

Imaginaros nuestra historia como si fuera una partida de ajedrez en la que los arroyuelos y los setos dividen las casillas. Alicia va a ser un peón que intenta llegar a ser reina en una partida de ajedrez donde nada tiene sentido y nada es lo que parece. Todo parece estar al revés: por ejemplo para ir a un sitio lo mejor es alejarse de él y para cortar una tarta en trozos lo primero es repartir los trozos y luego cortarla.

Getting snowed in at a mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers...none of whom you can trust. When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration goes utterly wrong with the arrival of a monster storm, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival trumps synergy. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be?

When the Hebrew Singer—marveling at the fact, of which he had no doubt, that man is visited by God—exclaimed, "When I consider Thy Heavens," he was undoubtedly comparing the apparent littleness of man with the vastness of the universe of which he was conscious of. For him, the expression "Thy heavens" included the universe whose existence was demonstrated by the "moon and the stars." Evidently, it was like a song composed at night. Like all inspired expressions, it was inclusive. But how much it included, the Singer certainly did not know.

This is a neglected history. No attempt at a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular, told by Annabelle Hirsch through her selection of 101 objects, and now brought thrillingly alive for you by a chorus of 101 remarkable women in this ground-breaking audio release.

1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.

Every fifty years, the road calls... and someone answers. In the quiet town of Ashwood, history has a way of repeating itself. For centuries, a sinister cycle has claimed its victims—a teacher and a student, vanishing without a trace, leaving behind only whispers of a dark legend. Now, as the cycle begins again, high school senior **Ben Holloway** finds himself at the center of a mystery that defies explanation. Drawn into a web of unsolved disappearances, urban legends, and a haunting black 1965 Ford Mustang, Ben realizes that the past is not as distant as it seems.

"Бедные люди" - роман Федора Михайловича Достоевского, первое оригинальное печатное произведение русского писателя. Роман представляет собой пятьдесят четыре письма, которыми обменялись главные герои — пожилой чиновник Макар Алексеевич Девушкин и девушка-сирота Варвара Алексеевна Доброселова.

Students of divine science rejoice in the all-inclusiveness of this teaching. Nothing is excluded; all is to be understood and interpreted aright. An omnipresent god does not confine the revelation of himself to any one channel, but he flows into expression wherever he is given the right of way. Therefore, every ardent and persistent seeker discovers truth, and as a result, contributes something toward the well-being of mankind.

Una mirada crítica a los discursos reaccionarios surgidos al calor de la crisis; una invitación abierta a actualizar la herencia ilustrada. Autoritarismo, fanatismo, catastrofismo, terrorismo… son algunas de las caras de una poderosa reacción antiilustrada que domina los relatos de nuestro presente. Ante la actual crisis de civilización, solo parece haber dos salidas: o condena o salvación. Lo que esconde esta disyuntiva es una rendición.

La dieta cetogénica pone a tu cuerpo en un estado conocido como cetosis. Cuando estás en cetosis, tu cuerpo está haciendo lo que siempre has querido que haga: finalmente está quemando sus reservas de grasa como combustible. ¡Obtén una copia de Dieta Cetogénica para Principiantes para obtener más información!

In an enchanted land of lady knights and deep magic, there lives a woman who does not want to be queen. Her name is Winter, and her quiet life is upended when her sister abdicates the throne. The throne cannot remain empty. Winter must be queen. But Winter would give anything not to be.

This is a story from the Famous Composers collection.

The international number one best seller. All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?

Guerrière apache ou sirène hollywoodienne, gardienne de phare ou créatrice de trolls, gynécologue ou impératrice, les Culottées ont fait voler en éclats les préjugés. Marina Rollman et 18 comédien·nes nous emportent dans la vie de ces femmes à la détermination incroyable. Grâce à un habillage sonore riche, l'univers illustré de Pénélope Bagieu prend tout son sens à l'écoute.

There are records which show that thousands of years ago, in the secret temples in Egypt, there were people called Hermetics, who retired from the world for the purpose of getting closer to Divine Mind. They separated themselves from all religious thought, and made a unity with Divine Resource, the Cause Side of existence. They were like some of our scientists, experimenters in the laboratory of Being.

Addison Abbot is a dreamer--she dreams of owning her own cake shop, of traveling the world, of finding Prince Charming. But when it comes to actually following any of those dreams, she's a little, well, stuck. So when a devilishly handsome stranger saves her from two robbers with guns and pulls her into the adventure of a lifetime, she's determined to find her fairy tale ending--until she realizes he's the most wanted criminal in America, that is. Thaddeus Ryder was just another run-of-the-mill international art thief until his latest heist went south.

Pour Elena, comme pour l'Italie, une période de grands bouleversements s'ouvre. Nous sommes à la fin des années soixante, les événements de 1968 s'annoncent, les mouvements féministes et protestataires s'organisent, et Elena, diplômée de l'École normale de Pise et entourée d'universitaires, est au premier rang. Même si les choix de Lila sont radicalement différents, les deux jeunes femmes sont toujours aussi proches, une relation faite d'amour et de haine.